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utchinson New THE NEWS 18 A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRE83 WHICH IS THE BEST THE NEW8 HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF THE PAPERS IN CENTRAL KANSAS (a HE NO. 136. HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1916. (LAST EDITION.) VOL. XXXI OH I SEE WHAT I'VE FOUND CUMMINS OPPOSES THE MAYBE MONTENEGRO ISN'T TO CAPITULATE AFTER ALL R0F1T ON MUNITIONS Insofar as it Bolsters Up Our Ideas.

This is Latest News from the Front, Via Paris. A TEUTONIC CONFERENCE. CHINESE BOMB PLOTS. London. Jan.

19 The Excha-ve LET GOVERNMENT MAKE THEM THE TERMS UNACCEPTABLE Telegraph company's Amstoivfc correspondent says that a confess ence of the finance ministers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Tur- key and Bulgaria will be held next week in Vienna, The chief pur- pose of the conference, it is said, Peking, Jan. 17. Several serv- ants and higher employes were arrested in connection with an al- leged bomb plot in the imperial palace. It is announced from the president's office that all those arrested have been released as no case had been proved. The King and the Royal Family And Keep Profit Out of a Possible War or Plans to Pre- pare for Defense.

is the discussion oi me rmsncuu position of the Teutonic AlliesAj and the adoption oi iireu.n,-3 l0 meet certain contingent's. nled he had told Mrs. Mohr in 1912 that he could control Mis3 Burger. Have Gone to Italy for the Present. fp- IS IT UNSETTLED? Paris, Jan.

19. (Via London. Some Hearsay. "Did not Mrs. Mohr tell you she called up Miss Burger and asked her to stop going around with her hus band that Miss Burger had prom ised to keep away, and didn't Miss Burger tell Dr.

Mohr and didn't Mrs. The following official riatement was Issued today-' "The wlr-ss news of the sur- Mohr tell you that as a consequence the doctor beat her?" "I think she showed me some rend- of the Montenegrin army I HMMfnr marks." th d'ispateh says, "and reviewed a procession of Bulgarian, Macedonian and German troops." The emperor presented King Ferdinand with a field marshal's baton and the king appointed the emiperor honorary commander of the Bulgarian Infantry regiment. "Among the emperor's retinue were general staff; Field Marshal Von geenral staff; Field Marshal Von Mackensen, Adjutants General Vow Ples3en, Von Chelius and Von Lynck-er and Admiral Von Mueller. King Ferdinand was accompanied by Princes Boris and Cyril, Premier Rad-oslavoff and others." Rooks denied emphatically that he had tried to get Mrs. Mohr to go to dinner with him or that he had told Mrs.

Mohr that Dr. Mohr was a Bcoun- "Washington, Jan. 19. Elimination of private profit as an influence for war by government manufacture of all war munitions was urged in the senate today by Senator Cummins, of Iowa. Republican.

He pleaded for prompt adoption of his resolution, wihich would authorize a special com-nuttee to inquire into the most feasible plan for acquiring and construct, ing plants to supply the army and navy with all arms, ammunition and ZlPoTk to report on the legislation necessary to The War May Come. COffie 10 thl3 hn? alor Cumins declared, su it fi Cmrf3 lt must be the result of the dispassionate, loyal Purpose to meet the awful scouree because there is no other way of dffend ing our civili7ati drel and he would "like to put a couple of bullets into him." THE STEAMSHIP RYNDAM is now announced from another source that negotiations between Austria and Montenegro have been broken, the conditions of surrender Imposed by Austria having been found quits unacceptable by Montenegro. "The king, the royal family and the diplomatic corps are about to proceed to Italy." Montenegro may not have played her final part in the world war, according to an official announcement in Paris today. This states that news of her surrender may have been pre- IS ON THE MUD SHOALS No One Allowed to JLeave it Nor Official announcement was made in Berlin on Sunday that Emperor William had recovered his health completely amd had returned to the front. A Russian Offensive.

Berlin, Jan. 19. (Wireless to Say-ville.) A new offensive movement has been inaugurated by the Russians to the east of Czernowic. The Austrian statement of today says the Rus sians made four successive attacks at several places, but were repulsed. No One is Allowed to go Aboard.

ttlr'J d0 nt ert that London. Jan. 19. The steamshiD av corporation which war 1 frm War WOUId taoite ar, but d0 agsert that sons and nKunriat; jnatiure, as it is learned rrora anouiei source that the Montenegrin negotiations with Austria have been broken Ryndam, of the Holland-American line Is aground at Graves'and. No report has yet been made of the extent of the damage has received.

An ex 7 ttlB IlOt C0U1D6- tent to Judge the controversies which EIGHT JAPANESE FISHERMEN DRIFTED ACROSS PACIFIC amination is being made. In the meantime none of the passengers or the crew is allowed to leave the ves sel. 7w 10 conmct. and inasmuch as they cannot be removed from the great panel of the republic, they ought of which the interest grows. It ought to be made Impossible, so far as the pcwer of the goverament la0 ed for any man or corporation to make money out of war.

Nee Rebaptism. need Just now, above all other things, a rebaptism in American eaf to JEALOUSY A LEE ANNIVERSARY. In a Small Fishing Boat, Unguid-ed, They Were Blown to Canadian Shore. DISCUSSION IS HEATED THE CAUSE? Dallas, Texas, Jan. 19.

Observ- ance of the 109th anniversary of the birthday of General Robert E. Lee, took plaofe here and at other places todiy. No public service la being Jd, but the vet- erans and'Caugh at the Con-" federacy have the exercises in charge. Austrian authorities being such as Montenegro could not accept The source of the information is not given, in the Paris statement, which adds that King Nicholas and the royal fain-flv of Montenegro, together with the diplomatic corps, are about to proceed to Italy. Rather Unimportant.

Military operations along the various fronts in the European theatre of war have been relatively unimportant since the cessation of the fighting in Montenegro and the halt of the Russian offensive in Eastern Galicia and on the Bessaxabian frontier. Paris reports quiet on the Franco-Belgian frontier and the only mention of activity along the eastern front contined in the current statement from Berlin is that of a German air squadron which attacked Russian-' storage depots and other military establishments at Tarnapol, Galicia. Further news came to hand today of the campaign in the Caucasus Was That the Reason for the It is in Regard to Intervention in Republic of Mexico. Killing of Dr. Alohr? Washington, Jan.

19. A story of eight Japanese fishermen who drifted all the way across the Pacific ocean in a small fishing boat, landing, after twenty-four days of hardships on the British Columbian shore, reached the bureau of navigation today in consular dispatches. The narrative tells how the fishermen, caught off the harbor of Chimo-do, Japan, in a storm that carried away their vessel's main mast and rudder, were driven eastward by ocean currents helpless and, towards the end of their trip, half starved. The TOOK HER OWN LIFE. The Ryndam, which left New York January 5, with seventy-nine first-class, thirty-four second class and thirty-eight third class passengers as well as mall for Rotterdam, via Falmouth, was reported in a cable dispatch of yesterday's date as having passed Southend down by the bows with a list to starboard and as having arrived later at Gravesrsnd.

It was added that all the passengers were saved but that three stockers were killed and four injured though In what form of accident it wa3 not announced. The Ryndam was built at Belfast in 1901, is 550 fret long and is of 12,527 tons gross. She carries a crew of 200 men. On a Muddy Shoal. Gravesend, Jan.

19. The Ryndam is beached on a muddy shoal about five miles below Gravesend. No one is permitted to approach the vessel. Even the ship's officers are not permitted to come ashore, except to consult officials of the steamship company. No lights are permitted at night on the deck of the vessel.

The American consul said, after an Investigation, that he was satisfied none of the three stokers who were killed was an American citizen. THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE FOREIGN RELATIONS FOLKS That Points in This Direction in Of the Senate Did a Lot of Talking But That Was All it Amounted To. the Trial of Wife in the Providence Court. boat grounded on one of the small uninhabited islands that dot the British Columbian shore where the men remained until picked up by a passing steamer. Only one of the party suffered Ill-effects from the trip.

He is now in Prince Rupert hospital. The boat was of the type common along the Japanese coast, fitted with loyalty to American institutions, pride In our nast and spirit that commands men to live for their country, and, if necessary to 'U" one, am not'wll? ing that Americanism shall be defined and standardized by millionaire mu nition makers or by the brokers, bank- ackZs wh0 share tueir blood-stained profits. yant, Camp. In this critical moment, what la the attitude of the makers of arms and munitions? Without exception, so far as I know, they are insisting upon most comprehensive program which it is possible to conceive" and they are employing through all the channels and all the Instrumentalities which mould public thought all the forces at their command for a completeness of preparation that would turn this country Into a military camp and practically destroy all ambition save the ambition to overcome by force of arms tho entire world." Middle Ground. Without discussing preparedness ln detail, the senator said he believed that somewhere between the armed camp of William of Germany, and the open dove-cote of William, of Nebraska, there miiRt be an honorable abiding place for a great nation which is prepared to lead the world toward peace, but will not submit to injustice or Indignity." Emphasising the effect of the European war on private munition makers In the United Stnte3, he told the sen- ate that Slllfp tlm war hnn tlinra Washington, Jan.

19. Heated dis where the Rusians recently cegan offensive over a wide front and admittedly have been making progress against the Turks. Constantinople now announces that the Ottoman armies resistim; the Russian advance have teen reinforced and have checked the Russisos along the entire front. Grand Duke Nicholas' forces have suffered severely in the fighting dur, ing the last eight days, according to the Turkish statement, which claims that the situation now is favorable to the Turks, only slight changes in position having been effected by the Russian operations. Another View.

rn ho other hand a Petrograd offi cussion over the Mexican situation Providence, R. Jan. 19. A letter containing a threat to kill Miss Emily Burger and alleged to have been written by Mrs. Elizabeth Mohr, who is Authoress was Weary of Her Continued III Health.

New York, Jan. 19. Mrs. Dora Knowlton Raueous, authoress widely known as a translator, of French and Italian literature and at one time an actress iu Augustin Daly's company, committed suicide at her home here today. Dread of continued ill-health was ascribed by her friends as the motive for ending her life.

Mrs. Raneous was a widow and lived alone with a housekeeper, who found her dead in bed. To her friend and literary co-worker, Dr. Rooslter Johnson, she left money for funeral expenses and a note In which she said she was "so weary of my broken life with a prospect of worse to come that I cannot bear it any longer, but God will not be angry with me." Mrs. Raneous was born in Ashfield, and was about 60 years old.

She translated Into English with Dr. Johnson, Gabriele D'Annunzlo's "The Flame," Matilde Serao's "The Conquest of Rome," and with Robert Arnold, editions of Guy De Maupassant. She wa3 also the author of English in Good Form," and edited "History of Literature' in sixteen featured the first meeting today of the senate committee on foreign relations, cooking utensils. It became waterlogged in the storm that stripped It of sails and after first attempts the Japanese made no further effort to direct its course. which adjourned without taking ac IS TALK OF STOPPING THE SALE OF BOOZE IN CANADA tion on resolutions providing for in on trial for the murder of her huS' band, Dr.

C. Franklin Mohr, was In-troduced by the prosecution today, A CLEVELAND SHAKEUP. tervention or sending troops to aio Carranza in protecting American citizens in bandit-Infested sections of Mexico. George W. Rooks also testified that Borah Wouldn't Walt.

Senator Borah, of Idaho, who ureed At Least Until After the War is Over or Until Repealed by the People. speedy action, has decided to canvass the senate on what-support wouia De elvpn an effort to consider nronosals Head of Detective Force Resigned Over Blanchettl Matter. Cleveland, Jan. 19. Following publication of statements by Mayor Harry L.

Davis, that the Cleveland detective department bungled in handling the murder of the 19-year-old girl known as Dolores Evans, an actress, who was strangled in a hotel here last week, Chief Walker, of the detective bureau, resigned today. Police Chief Rowe denied that Walker quit because Mayor Davis promised a shakeup In of Intervention should the foreign re lations committee fall to act on resolutions before it. Democratio sena jhad been 174 new corporations organ tors, it was declared, would stand solidly behind President Wilson In ized in tuis country for the manufacture of munitions and the value of arirs and munitions exported in fif the crisis. the detective force for permitting the Not for Intervention. The opinion prevailed that none of tli Intervention resolutions would be WEATHER FORECAST.

Kansas: Snow tonight, warmer in east portion; Thursday probably snow In east, unsettled and colder In west portion. teen montns nan aggregated 278. He RtlhmHtpd tahln chnwln Mrs. Mohr told him she could hire a couple of thugs to kill her husband. George V.

Rooks, who Is a brother-in-law of Miss Emily Burger, identified the card Mrs. Mohr wrote him urging him to persuade his sister-in-law to keep away from the physician. Was It Jealousy? Miss Burger, who was wounded when Mohr was shot, was his private secretary and the state claims that Jealousy of her was one of the motives that led Mrs. Mohr to employ Cecil Brown and Henry Spellman to murder Dr. Mohr.

On cross-examination Rooks denied Jealousy of the physician's attentions to Miss Burger or that he had tried to prejudice Mrs. Mohr against her husband. Rooks Identified a letter to him from Mrs. Mohr on December 3, 1913. It read In part: A Threat to Kill.

"My son, Charles, has told me that his father has taken him three times to call on Miss Burger. I am going to get after her. She is not going to get the best of me. I will kill her before I'm through with the whole matter. the following estimates of the amounts of war contracts of some of the larger reported at present and that a majority of the committee would uphold the corporations: Ottawa, Jan.

19. A resolution calling for prohibition of litjuor in Canada for the duration of the war and a reconstructive period of three years thereafter, or until repealed by votes of the people, was adopted today at a meeting of members of the Dominion Alliance executive, the senate and commons and the Ottawa committee recently organized to further the federal prohiblion movement. resolution In effect determines the wording of a bill which will be Introduced In the commons later In the session. A committee was appointed to wait on the cabinet and ask the government to facilitate passage of the resolution and follow it up with legislation. TO BE SENTENCED.

FIRST NATIONAL BUILDING REPORT. president in bis determination to give ti.o Cflrrniia eovernment a chance to Here's the List. demonstrate its ability to establish Tmpr atur Lait 24 Houri. American locomotive Ki.oo0,O00 4 r. SO A.

51. A. M. Ainonran steel Foundries l.i.OflO.OQO 8 A. 10 A.

jmni ill 1VVVVVVVV liethlehem tfte1! company, 8 P. 80 P. 27 1) P. 27 12 MMnlifht 2 3 A. 28 Maximum 80 18 vvv enpus jihi- uuy, mgeuier with flokl guns and other 111 a OPtrta 1 V.

SO Minimum 27 fvluyer of the Evans girl to get out of town. Iouis Blanchetti, now under arrest In New York, lias been indicted here for murdorlng the actress, Cleveland officers, in New York to bring him back for trial, are expected here tomorrow. The identity of the girl was still a mystery today. What wa thought to be positive identification of the body by A. It Rossow, of Uarretsvlllo, as his daughter, yenterday, failed when the daughter appeared.

The effort to identify the slain girl extended to Johnstown, today when police learned that a vaudeville actress giving the name of Betty Meyers, 19, and believed to be the victim, woe married at Elyrla, Ohio, last summer to Dan Whlrley, a carnival por- Colorado Fuel and Iron company, 35,000 pounds of steel rounds. Crucible Slcfl. of 1rt.6nfl.0ft0 DiMierRl Electric r.8,OnO,000 THST CANDY RS6VT cial' statement claims that the campaign in tlie Caucasus is developing favorably to the Russians, who have taken strong Turkish positions with comparatively slight losses, while the Turks have suffered heavily. Good progress is also being made in the Russian campaign in Persia, Petrograd declares. Little new light has leen thrown tipon happenings in Greece, whence reports of a strongly aggressive move-jnents on the.

part of the Entente powers came through German sources yesterday. A Lincoln dispatch late last night, however, conveyed a statement Iby the British foreign office that it had no news confirmatory of the German reports and that they are believed to be unfounded. About Montenegro. London, Jan. 19.

A Reiiter dispatch from Amsterdam says that' at today's session of the upper house of the Prussian diet, according to dispatches from Berlin, the president once more referred to the surrender of Montenegro, and said that it constituted evidence that the Entente, while outwardly appearing to be a structure of solid form, is smouldering internally and will soon collapse. He said that the splendid success of the Austrian troops at Lov-cen is a favorable omen for the definite result of the war. Turkish Report. Constantinople, Jan. 19.

(via Amsterdam and London). The following official statement was Issued at Turk-lull headquarters: "CauaasiiB front: The Russians who sustained considerable losses in consequence of our violent attacks and owing to our reinforcements, were compelled to abandon their attacks along their entire front. Dosplte eight days of very violent offensive operations by superior enemy forces, the situation, apart from slight changes, remains favorable to tis. There is otherwise no new development." The Two Monarche. Ixmdon.

Jan, 19. A dispatch received by Router's Telegram company says that Emperor Wtlllu.m, at Nlsh, Sorbla, yesterday, met King Fordl-jioiiil," of Bulgaria. "They greeted ewdi other cordiality," tkex gave: ne FINALLY GOT IjO irw li'in Aiiuinno Wentlnghoune Airbrake lO.ftoo.ooo 100,000,009 And Many Others. "This docs net Include," the senator continued, "the contracts of the Allls-Chalmers Manufacturing company of schapnel shells nor the Dupont Powder company, or the General Chemical company, or the General Motors company, or of the Lackawanna Stoel dirty lT fonniier. She gave her home as Johms-town.

and said Iter father wa EAT IT. Joseph My ere. Want Requisition. Albany, N. Y.f Jan.

19. The application by police official of Cleveland company, or or tne iennensoe opper order In Mexico ana to pumsu murderers of American cltnzeua. Not Yet Ready. The date culled for Senator Fall's resolution regarding the Carranza government and iu recognition was not before the committee and Chairman Stone, who saw the premtdent earlier In the day could not say when It would be ready. For that reason, the committee did not consider the nomination of Henry P.

Fletnher as embassador to Mexico, Republicans Insisting that they would not vote on his confirmation until the president's response had been received. Then Adjournment Intervention resolutions were still under dtwnnnlon when the committee adjournod to attend a swwion of the senate. The subject wlU be taken up ogaln next Wednesday. Among Republican senators who urged action by the committee were Senators lodge, Horah and Sutherland. REVISE THE RATES.

Pips Line Companies In ths Bart to Charge Mors. Pittsburgh, Jan. 19 Announcement was made today that all the pipe line companies operating through the Joseph Seel) purchasing agency would for the flrt time in twenty years ad-vanos the price for gathering oil from 20 to 25 rents a barret The territory covered by the new rates Include West Virginia, westers) t'sutieylvaulA au4 eaetem ObiA company, all of which aro immense concerns and have been largely on- gBReU 111 Hie mime s-u itvi minimn. The senator read from another table i 119 Dt'UIUUt linu uimh uiiuiiiLi for the extradition of louls lltanchetti, charged with the murder of Dolores Evana, at Cleveland, was granted by Governor Whitman today, UlanclieUi was arrested In New York oa Satur Life Imprisonment for Man Who Killed Hla Wife. Minneapolis, Jan.

19. Frederick T. Price, convicted last week of murdering his wife for her fortune more than a year ago, was to appear before Judge Daniel Fluh, In district court today, for sentence. The penalty Is life Imprisonment Ml C. Brady, chief counsel for the defense, said last night that he was undecided on the question of seeking a now trial for Trice at this time.

He said It waa probably that newly discovered evidence first would be closely investigated. 8AYS SHE'8 ROOSEVELT'S NIECE. Authorltlee Promptly Charged Her With Uniound Mind. London, Jan, p. m.

Miss Ethyln Lnlnnde, of New York, who claims to be a niece of Theodore Koosovelt, has been detained by tho police for examination as to her sanity. If her relatives in New York will send for her the police will start her home at once. Miss Lalande came here ou war relief work, She la a low person, when she won't listen to a good woman like me, who asked her to slay away from my husband. She will be sorry before many days. I Just want to let you know how your sister-in-law Is deceiving you, I'm not going to put up with It.

Please look into this matter and don't let her Jolly you. 1 glv her fair warning." Rooks told of conversations he had with Mrs. Mohr between December, 1918, and June 1914, at hla office and the postofflce at the south station in Boston. Could Hire Thugi. He tald Mrs.

Mohr was very bitter against her huabanid and eald she could hire thugs to murder him. She said, Rooks testified, ehe hoped he would get killed by his automobile-, and said she would kill Miss Burger bc-ror she'd lot her marry Dr. Mohr. Mrs. Mohr added that Mis Burger would never llv with, her husband, th witness ald, but sh said she would give her husband divorce If would give her 130,000 la the Mid-Aleiton estate.

On croaa examination, witness de- to show unparalleled Increases during the war market value of stocks, listing a scoro of concerns In which stock values had Increased in the aggregate $432,058,500. day. Tli In tha case whr the Hutchin son police and the Dodge City officers were asked to take niunchetti from a Santa Fe train recently, the Cleveland rlntortlv 1fcliirliiir 1i camn till a way. Turned Down Incre.isee. WaBlilnigtom, Jan.

19. Increased rates on bituminous tump coal In car load from Colorado and Wyomin mines to poln- Nebraska and Colo-redo on the Union PnrMo railroad were disapproved today by the Interstate commerce commission. ThT proponed increases from tea to ot-eroty-flve ccnits per net toa in fleeing from the ecetie of hl crime, whnn In fact he wa arrested In New York City. The rule lis that, If the woman le good looking, the Jury find It enny to 'believe la hw inaoceiuoe. Atchiaon CUol.

"Zimmie".